Experts we spoke to said that while this study is useful to fellow
researchers working within mouse models, among the lay public, it may
cause more confusion than clarification (as evidenced by that TIME
headline, which implied emulsifiers caused cancer, when in fact the
carcinogens caused the cancer).
“Just what this has to do with human beings, human cancer,
human-ingested doses of emulsifiers– is beyond me,” said Dr. Vinay
Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist and assistant professor of medicine at
the Oregon Health and Sciences University. “As far as I can tell, no
connection exists. This is all so theoretical.”